DISA F5 BIG-IP TMOS DNS STIG v1r1

Audit Details

Name: DISA F5 BIG-IP TMOS DNS STIG v1r1

Updated: 12/19/2025

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: F5

Revision: 1.0

Estimated Item Count: 12

File Details

Filename: DISA_STIG_F5_BIG-IP_TMOS_DNS_v1r1.audit

Size: 41.9 kB

MD5: 369e7f7b2a81e1d87aea2401cb1560c7
SHA256: 1d176b823ebd1ac4e72b259b46774be0c54a3b77ea8cd7a1180ff8bfb373a849

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
F5BI-DN-300011 - The F5 BIG-IP DNS implementation must prohibit recursion on authoritative name servers.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DN-300012 - The validity period for the RRSIGs covering a zone's DNSKEY RRSet must be no less than two days and no more than one week.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DN-300013 - An authoritative name server must be configured to enable DNSSEC Resource Records.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

F5BI-DN-300014 - Primary authoritative name servers must be configured to only receive zone transfer requests from specified secondary name servers.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DN-300015 - The F5 BIG-IP DNS must use valid root name servers in the local root zone file.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DN-300016 - The platform on which the name server software is hosted must be configured to respond to DNS traffic only.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DN-300017 - The digital signature algorithm used for DNSSEC-enabled zones must be set to use RSA/SHA256 or RSA/SHA512.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DN-300020 - The F5 BIG-IP DNS server implementation must validate the binding of the other DNS server's identity to the DNS information for a server-to-server transaction (e.g., zone transfer).

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DN-300028 - A BIG-IP DNS server implementation must provide additional data origin artifacts along with the authoritative data the system returns in response to external name/address resolution queries.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

F5BI-DN-300030 - The validity period for the RRSIGs covering the DS RR for a zones delegated children must be no less than two days and no more than one week.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

F5BI-DN-300036 - The F5 BIG-IP DNS implementation must protect the authenticity of communications sessions for zone transfers.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

F5BI-DN-300039 - The F5 BIG-IP DNS server implementation must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION